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ALBANY DEMOCRAT-HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2007 MID VALLEY www.democratherald.com OBITUARIES Hermon Frank Elden Willard Birky Nusbaum May 5, 1920 July 9, 2007 July 9, 1917 July 10, 2007 Hermon Frank Nusbaum died Tuesday, the day after his 90th birthday, of age-related causes at the home that he and his wife, Nita, built 52 years ago in Bellfountain. He was born to parents Frank A. and Grace Nusbaum at his grandparent's home in Corvallis. Hermon lived on the Herman family farm Nusbaum in Bellfountain his entire life except for a period of military service when he was stationed in the Philippines. He married Nita Macauley in Reno, on Nov.

19, 1947. Hermon was a lifelong farmer from childhood to his passing, remaining involved and interested in the farm's daily activities. He produced a variety of crops, livestock and wood products with a special fondness for raising beef cattle. He was forward thinking and excelled at long-range planning. Off the farm, Hermon served on the Pioneer Telephone Co-operative's Board of Directors for 38 years.

He also held positions on the Bellfountain School Board and Bellfountain Cemetery Association, as well as participating in other county and community organizations. He was preceded in death by wife Nita, daughter Susan Goracke and brother Earl Nusbaum. He is survived by son Frank of Bellfountain; grandsons David, Jason, Matthew and Dallas Goracke, and Orin Nusbaum; and granddaughter Katie Nusbaum. A private graveside service will be held with a joint memorial service for Hermon and Nita in August. The date will be announced later.

Memorial donations may be directed to Benton Hospice in care of McHenry Funeral Home, 206 N.W. Fifth Corvallis, OR 97330. Online condolences can be left at www.mchenryfuneralhome.com. Mary Ann Richey Dec. 23, 1920 July 11, 2007 Mary Ann Richey, 86, of Albany died Wednesday.

She was born in Alex, to William Joseph and Teresa (Pittman) Wal- ton. May Ann married Purman Eugene Richey in Purcell, on April 1, 1939. In 1957, they moved to Albany and Mary Ann then in 1968 Richey to Lacomb on Crabtree Creek. Mary Ann enjoyed sewing; quilting; traveling, especially to Hawaii; painting; and making pies. Many family members have received her special quilts.

What Mary Ann loved the most was family gatherings and being surrounded by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. May Ann was preceded in death by her brother, two sisters, daughter Junella Jo 1967 and husband Purman in 1994. She is survived by daughters Deanna Soward of Lacomb and Eugenia Hardin of Albany; sons Sherman of Albany, Glenn of Lebanon and Jeff of Lacomb; 21 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandson. Mary Ann's family would like to extend their thanks to the nurses and staff at the Mennonite Nursing Home in Albany for the kindness and care given to Mary Ann. Mary Ann was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses and her memorial service will be at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Crabtree Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home is handling arrangements (www.aasumdufour.com). Elden Willard Birky, 87, of Halsey died Monday of age-related causes. He was born in Albany to Joseph and Sarah (Kenagy) Birky. He worked as a carpenter and in remodel work.

He married Priscilla Kropf on Nov. 7, 1943, in Halsey. They were married 63 years. He is survived by wife Priscilla; children Carrie Gingerich of Halsey, Ernest Birky of Halsey, Vernon Birky of Fairfield, Margaret Warfel of Halsey, Loretta Birky of Halsey, Delbert Birky of Stirling, Alberta, Canada, Kenneth Birky of Halsey, David Birky of Halsey, Ben Birky of Halsey and Robert Birky of Madras; siblings Luke Birky, Ruth Kauffman and Wilbur Birky, all of Goshen, and Lela Birky of Crockett, 48 grandchildren; and 47 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by five Schrock grandchildren and one infant.

Viewing will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at MurphyMusgrove Funeral Home in Junction City. A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Lake Creek Mennonite School. Burial will follow at Alford Cemetery in Harrisburg.

Murphy-Musgrove Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Jean Ann Louise (Burnett) Disher Oct. 14, 1918 July 9, 2007 Jean Ann Louise (Burnett) Disher died Monday after a long illness. She was born in Stevensville, the daughter of Leonard and Ruth Burnett. As valedictorian of her high school class, she earned a scholarship to the University of Montana, where she majored on drama and business administration.

She married Harley Beasley, now deceased and they had four sons. In 1951, the family moved to Albany where she had lived since. She married to Elton Disher in May 1970. She worked as a secretary and office manager for several local firms and was active in the church and civic affairs, including Little Theater, president of the Linn Country Mental Health Society and Opportunity Center. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, the Springhill Country Club and the Order of the Eastern Star.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Elton Disher, and son Lloyd Beasley. She is survived by sons David Beasley of Newberg, Leonard Beasley of Woodland, and Allen Beasley of Albany; grandchildren Lisa Huber and Eric Beasley of Newberg, Ryan Beasley of Oregon City and Julie Motschenbacher of Portland. She is also survived by one sister, Dale B. Ryan, of Big Sky, Mont. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m.

Friday at the United Presbyterian Church in Albany. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Linn County Mental Health Society in care of the Lloyd Douglas Beasley Memorial Fund, 29626 Church Drive, Albany, OR 97321. Service notice Wyman Summers, 82, of Lebanon died Wednesday at Timberwood Court in Albany. Viewing will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at Huston-Jost Funeral Home.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Southside Church of Christ. Private burial will be at the Lebanon 1 IO0F Cemetery. Huston-Jost Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Death notices Kristin A.

Holcomb, 54, of Scio died Tuesday at her home. Huston-Jost Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Virginia A. Miller, 79, of Albany died Wednesday at Salem Hospital. AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Get a complete listing of television programs and easy-to-read prime-time listings every Sunday in the Albany Democrat-Herald. Jefferson pool debuts water slide JEFFERSON The grand opening for a new 7- foot-tall corkscrew slide with a 450-degree rotation begins at noon Saturday at the Jefferson Pool and Park, 1298 N. Second St. The time from noon to 1 p.m. is for season pass holders, who get in for free.

Others will be charged $1 to swim between 1 and 5 p.m. Music will be provided by the Jefferson Jammers, there will be barbecue hamburgers and hot dogs, and prizes will be given away throughout the day. Made possible by lowrate financing through the Special Districts Association of Oregon, the new slide is the first major enhancement to the pool in 20 years. Other recent improvements include park benches constructed by Jefferson High School students, picnic tables, and new pool lights that may allow for additional hours of operation for the pool. The pool offers swimming lessons, recreational swims, water aerobics, a youth swim team, and i is available for private rental.

A season pass for a family of five or fewer costs $150. The pool is open through Sept. 1. For more information, call (541) 327-3581. Democrat-Herald J.R.

Roldon, 11, barrels at the Jefferson pool official unveiling is slated pool-goers are making use JESSE HERALD down the new 7-foot slide Monday afternoon. The slide's for Saturday, but many of it in the mean time. Linn firefighters battling blaze in eastern Oregon Lightning storm bypasses mid-valley after hitting Grants Pass, Medford BY ALBANY DEMOCRAT-HERALD SWEET HOME Nineteen firefighters from Linn County have been battling the Egley Complex fire in eastern Oregon since late Tuesday, according to Sweet Home Fire Chief Mike Beaver. The action came after Gov. Kulongoski enacted the Emergency Conflagration Act for the fire burning west of Hines.

That allowed the State Fire Marshal's Office to mobilize firefighters and equipment from around the state. Five firefighters are from Sweet Home, four each from Albany, Lebanon and Harrisburg, and two from Brownsville. Sweet Home also sent a brush engine, a structural fire engine, a command vehicle and command staff. Brownsville sent a tender. Other strike teams were sent from Deschutes, Marion and Polk counties.

The Egley Complex fire has burned grass and brush and threatened 147 structures including residences, commercial buildings and outbuildings. It is composed of about 20 individual fires. As of this morning, it was about 15 percent contained. Lightning-caused fires in Central Oregon are partially controlled, but a new storm moving in from California could bring lightning, according to the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center. The Millican East fire is 19 miles northwest of Brothers on Bureau of Land Management property.

It covers 2,778 acres and is 90 percent contained. The 334-acre 428 fire, which burned approximately seven miles north of Paulina, is contained. Sizzling temperatures that brushed triple digits Tuesday cured already dry grasses and downed forest materials this week, according to Kevin Crowell, Sweet Home unit forester with the Oregon Department of Forestry. His staff is on high alert. All scheduled days off for staff members have Public invited to participate in doctor's decathlon fundraiser Tim Hindmarsh, a physician at Sweet Home Family Medicine, will start his annual 24-hour decathlon to raise money to fight diabetes with windsurfing tonight in the Columbia River Gorge.

Friday morning, Hindmarsh will ski and snowboard at Timberline Lodge at Mount Hood; waterski, wakeboard and slalom ski at Lake Halsey; and motocross race from his home to his clinic in Sweet Home. From there, he will cycle Friday afternoon to Pioneer Elementary School in Lebanon, where he will later land after skydiving from the Lebanon airport. The last event starts at 6 p.m. with a run from the school across town. Anyone who wants to participate in the cycling and running events may call Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital at 451-7161.

Hindmarsh hopes to raise $10,000 for diabetes education. Democrat-Herald Terry Sanders Central Agent 541-918-7552 Insurance Agency I would never- own a Mini Van As needs change, so should your insurance Call today for your FREE QUOTE insurance services offered through Central subsidiary Financial corporation of Services: Centra wholly owned 645 Waverly Dr. SE, Community Credit Union Albany Safeco Insurance COMMUNITY CALENDAR Please submit all Calendar items in writing. Items can be mailed to Calendar, DemocratHerald, PO. Box 130, Albany, OR 97321, faxed to 926-4799 or e- mailed to For more information, call Heather Crabtree, 812-6090, Events TODAY American Legion Public Bingo 6:30 p.m.

American Legion Hall, 1215 Pacific S.E. Forty et Eight Public Bingo 6 p.m., American Legion Hall, 480 Main Lebanon. River Rhythms Concert 7 p.m., Monteith Riverpark, 489 Water Albany. FRIDAY Movies By Moonlight dusk, parking lot behind Wyatt's Eatery on First Avenue. "Murder on the Orient Express." Free.

Info: 928-2469. Public Meetings TODAY Jefferson City Council 7:30 p.m., Conser House, 128 N. Main St. Lebanon Habitat 7 p.m. Lebanon First United Methodist Church, 1890 S.

Second St. Board meeting for Habitat for Humanity. Mari-Linn School Board 8 p.m., 741 Fifth Lyons. FRIDAY Organizations TODAY Albany Chess Club 6:30 p.m., Albany Heritage Apartments, 1212 34th S.E. Albany Plastic Modelers 7 p.m., 3010 Clay Albany.

Info: Tim Schubert, 926-1896. Albany Stamp Club 7 p.m., Alterra Villa on Grand Prairie. Info: Earle Nyberg, 752- 1433. Job's Daughters 7:30 p.m., Masonic Hall, 431 First Ave. Albany.

Lebanon 100F 8 p.m., 20 E. Ash St. Mid-Valley Singles 9 a.m., walk at E.E. Wilson near Adair. Valley Viewfinders Camera Club 7 p.m., Main Library, 1390 Waverly Drive S.E., Albany.

Info: valleyviewfinders.org or www.valleyviewfinders.org. Wonderkeepers Storytelling Guild 7 p.m., Periwinkle Child Development, LBCC Campus, Albany. Info: Charlotte, 967-6892. FRIDAY Albany Friends of the Library noon, Albany Main Library, 1390 Waverly Drive S.E., Albany. Free.

Cascade Foothill Squares 8 p.m., dance, Stayton Community Center, 400 W. Virginia St. Creative Anachronists 7 p.m. For location, call Duwayne Strauser, 928-7239. Lacomb Grange 6:30 p.m., potluck dinner; 7:30 p.m., meeting.

Grange Hall. Mid-Valley Singles 5:30 p.m., meet at Albany K- Mart for Rock Rogers, Salem. Senior Centers FRIDAY Albany, 489 Water Ave. 8 a.m., dance exercise; 9 a.m., dance exercise; 11:30 a.m., lunch; 1 p.m., pinochle and games; 2 p.m., move beyond pain. Lebanon, 65 Academy Wand 8 shuffle a.m., board; billiards, 11:30 snooka.m., lunch; noon, dominos.

been cancelled so a full crew is available in case a fire either caused by people or lightning takes off. Crowell said he was in the Middle Fork area Tuesday about 10:30 a.m. and it was already 90 degrees. "Everything is completely dried out," Crowell said. "It's really dry out there.

Knock on wood that we haven't had a fire." ODF crews have not been sent to the eastern Oregon fires, but this morning, two firefighters and a 300-gallon engine were dispatched to Roseburg, after numerous lightning strikes were reported last night. "We didn't get the storm, but i it came up and hit Grants Pass and Medford real hard," Jim Basting of the Sweet Home unit said this morning. "The storm came right up the valley, hit the top of the Douglas and Lane county line and then took a hard left and headed toward Reedsport. There were lots of lightning strikes. So far, we've been lucky, but there are predictions lightning may move our way tonight.

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